 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...narrow bed, And smooth'cl down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head , And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirh that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep... | |
 | Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 318 pages
...England, many fell victims to a pestilential typhus fever which we had acquired, partly from coming Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...Lightly they 'll talk of the spirit that 's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he 'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done, And we heard, by the distant random gun, ThaMhe foe was suddenly... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. A But half of our heavy task was clone, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we, far away o'er the billow. 6. Lightly they'll speak of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes...reck if they let him sleep on, In the grave where his comrades have laid him. 7. Not the half of our heavy task was done, When the bell toll'd the hour... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him- ; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! tly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Carrick Moore - 1833 - 434 pages
...pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! VI. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And...sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. VII. But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; Aud we heard... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...hollow'd his narrow bed,' And smooth'd down his lonely pillow, That the foe would be rioting over his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him : But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on, In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow — How the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow .' Lightly they'll...that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But nothing he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of... | |
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We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we... 
